What happens in the real world when drugs are decriminalized? According to "healthy drug free colorado" there would be a significant increase in use of drugs. Really? Here is a more than 10 year old study on what happens when drugs are decriminalized:

5280BroncosFan wrote:If you smoke trees out in public on 4/20, you deserve a ticket for being dumb. The powers that be are literally out to get you for ripping bowls on that specific day.

Here's some better ideas:

For those that want to be outside: Break out the lawn chairs, sit outside in your or your friend's backyard, throw on your favorite stoner jams (Bob Marley, Cypress Hill, Willie Nelson, Phish, or Grateful Dead) and get lifted.

For those that want to be inside: Sit on on couch, get out the bong or pipe, and either watch Friday, Half Baked, or How High? and get your smoke on. If you prefer to jam out while getting lit, listen to pretty much any rap music from the 90's, and get your smoke on.

Always remember: Puff, Puff, Give, and the pipe/bong is passed to the left.

Robert, there were 42 traffic fatalities involving pot last year, up from 38 in 2010, NOT 50 and that would infer a 10% increase, not a 100% increase. Secondly, why were there 42 fatalities INVOLVING pot last year and yet 0 reported on the news and 0 reported in the newspaper? Why are there alcohol traffic fatalities on the news every other day and yet never anything on pot???? Are pot traffic fatalities not newsworthy and yet alcohol traffic fatalities are? SOMETHING STINKS TO ME!!!

Anyone ever consider that 10% of all USA citizens are HIGH ALL DAY LONG ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS? Warning on the back of Paxil : "May cause drowsiness, alcohol might intensify this effect", "May cause dizziness", "use caution when operating heavy machinery or DRIVING AN AUTOMOBILE" Now, do these people take this stuff WHEN THEY GET TO WORK OR BEFORE? Because at least if they WAIT TILL THEY GET TO WORK THEY WONT DRIVE WHILE HIGH BUT THEY WILL STILL BE HIGH FOR 8 HOURS OR MORE AT WORK, right? Eh? "Get these stoned drivers off the road, we have a strict drug testing policy at our workplace"!!You know what really pisses me off, HYPOCRITES!!! How many of the people at these anti-pot/ drug-free rallies will be HIGH on antidepressants or HIGH on anti-anxiety meds or HIGH on caffeine? Or all of the above? And yet never one thought of the fact that all of these drugs are for the most part ineffective, definitively toxic, addictive, never a long term solution and can easily have lethal outcomes.

5280BroncosFan wrote:If you smoke trees out in public on 4/20, you deserve a ticket for being dumb. The powers that be are literally out to get you for ripping bowls on that specific day.

Here's some better ideas:

For those that want to be outside: Break out the lawn chairs, sit outside in your or your friend's backyard, throw on your favorite stoner jams (Bob Marley, Cypress Hill, Willie Nelson, Phish, or Grateful Dead) and get lifted.

For those that want to be inside: Sit on on couch, get out the bong or pipe, and either watch Friday, Half Baked, or How High? and get your smoke on. If you prefer to jam out while getting lit, listen to pretty much any rap music from the 90's, and get your smoke on.

Always remember: Puff, Puff, Give, and the pipe/bong is passed to the left.

In 2008, ALL NINE justices of the Supreme Court agreed that Second Amendment rights are not unlimited and that government may regulate guns. Read on it. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

Sanders20 wrote:Robert, there were 42 traffic fatalities involving pot last year, up from 38 in 2010, NOT 50 and that would infer a 10% increase, not a 100% increase. Secondly, why were there 42 fatalities INVOLVING pot last year and yet 0 reported on the news and 0 reported in the newspaper? Why are there alcohol traffic fatalities on the news every other day and yet never anything on pot???? Are pot traffic fatalities not newsworthy and yet alcohol traffic fatalities are? SOMETHING STINKS TO ME!!!

Good point.

But, you must understand that the Amendment 64 crowd negate such info as it is against their pot agenda.

They can't afford such facts to become public as it would be decremental to the cause of legalizing pot.

In 2008, ALL NINE justices of the Supreme Court agreed that Second Amendment rights are not unlimited and that government may regulate guns. Read on it. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf

Sanders20 wrote:Robert, there were 42 traffic fatalities involving pot last year, up from 38 in 2010, NOT 50 and that would infer a 10% increase, not a 100% increase. Secondly, why were there 42 fatalities INVOLVING pot last year and yet 0 reported on the news and 0 reported in the newspaper? Why are there alcohol traffic fatalities on the news every other day and yet never anything on pot???? Are pot traffic fatalities not newsworthy and yet alcohol traffic fatalities are? SOMETHING STINKS TO ME!!!

Good point.

But, you must understand that the Amendment 64 crowd negate such info as it is against their pot agenda.

They can't afford such facts to become public as it would be decremental to the cause of legalizing pot.

I am sorry you both do not understand how that works. Testing a corpse and finding marijuana in it does not mean that person used marijuana the day they drove, it could have been 30 days earlier.